"How do you make sustainable places and communities that recognize human rights and also understand what it means to ensure that everyone has access in a space of rapid urbanization?"
In this episode we delve into the work of Maria Adebowale - Schwarte with the Foundation for Future London.
Episode Notes:
- Foundation for Future London is focusing on a specific area in East London. It is part of a new cultural quarter, and we are there to democratize creativity, access into arts, culture, and placemaking. Our major focus is ensuring that we have open doors into space.
- Covid-19 has really highlighted the fact that places and green spaces are not "nice to haves."
- It is absolutely crucial anything that happens in East London is about communities leading and the feeling that everyone can be part of that decision-making.
- We need to resource that kind of intelligence, and lived experience in place, and it would need be at the center of all the policies that we do.
- Place led , not place based.
- Share your learning and share your data.
- Funding should be fair - Ask yourself: Who has been part of the agenda? Who has had a say, but not only who has had a say but who has been resourced to be involved? ----- Resource local intelligence ------
- Democratize creativity : access into the arts, culture, and placemaking. ----- Apply a social lens in decision making. -------
- Create a place that is inclusive - At all times.
Contact:
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mariaadebowale
Useful Links & References:
Foundation for Future London
Living Space Project
Placemaking Factor
London Sustainable Development Commission - Social Value in Regeneration and Placemaking
Guest's Bio:
Maria is the founding director of Living Space Project a think and do place making social enterprise. She advises on strategy and project design for collaborative, inclusive place making and cities. She is a CEO with Foundation For Future London. She is co-founder of the UK Placemaking collective and part of the global collective Placemaking X. Her latest book, the Placemaking Factor focuses on the dynamics of grant-making and philanthropic giving, and how it can lead us to a fairer greener future.
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